President Donald Trump carefully distanced himself from his unpopular amnesty proposal late Saturday night, saying that it is intended to show the GOP’s sincerity and the Democrats’ cynicism and obstructionism.

The giveaway amnesty deal was instantly and universally slammed by the Democrats’ ethnic and progressive activists, although Democratic leaders were careful to pocket the uncapped amnesty offer while demanding yet more concessions. The proposal emerged as Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer told the New York Times that he had agreed to fund wall construction in a face-to-face meeting with Trump while privately believing he could not deliver on the deal.

Trump’s pro-American voters were hostile to the amnesty offer, which opens the door to a massive, unregulated, unending amnesty of far more than 1.8 million illegals.

The amnesty would greatly help business groups and their lobbies, such as the Koch brothers, partly by aborting widespread wage raises before the November election. Trump’s top congressional aide, Marc Short, is a former senior aide to the Koch brothers.

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"... the federal government inflates the supply of new labor by annually accepting 1 million new legal immigrants, by providing work-permits to roughly 3 million resident foreigners, and by doing little to block the employment of roughly 8 million illegal immigrants."

“President Trump should fulfill his promise to the United States of America and to American citizens that voted for him,” said Angel Wife Ruth Johnston Martin of the White House’s Thursday-revealed amnesty proposal. “And what did he promise? He promised no DACA, no deals.”Martin, an ordained chaplain and board member of The Remembrance Project, made her comments on Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with co-hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.

Various communist, socialist and other leftist political groups frequently use the colour red as a motif and wear red armbands to symbolise their affiliation and show solidarity at rallies and meetings. The red armband as a communist device was especially brought into the public consciousness by People's Republic of China dictator Mao Zedong and his "Red Guard," a highly motivated and well-indoctrinated paramilitary organisation devoted to Chinese communism.

About his research, Urwand said: "I wouldn't want what I write to be generalisable about Jews, but specific Jews in the movie business made decisions to work with Nazi leaders." Urwand has uncovered evidence that as late as January 1938 the German office of 20th-Century Fox was requesting Hitler's views about American movies. The letter was signed "Heil Hitler".

Three studios – MGM, Paramount and 20th-Century Fox – did not pull out of Germany until mid-1940. But even after Hollywood started making anti-Nazi films, Urwand says, it continued to erase reference to the Jews because studio chiefs (with the support of Jewish groups) wanted to "avoid special pleading on their behalf".

...By 1932, Urwand writes, Nazi-inspired regulations allowed for film studios to have their permits revoked if films considered damaging to German prestige were shown not only in Germany but anywhere in the world. Hollywood, he claims, enthusiastically acquiesced to Hitler's demands to shape the content of movies to meet Nazi propaganda goals. "The excuse of ignorance can be ruled out," he writes. "Hollywood executives knew exactly what was going on in Germany, not only because it had been forced to fire its own Jewish salesmen but because the persecution of the Jews was well known at the time."

Hitler's Hollywood consul, Georg Gyssling, made regular studio visits, often requesting edits to scenes that ran counter to Nazi interests, or in the instance of films like The Mad Dog of Europe (1933) asking for them to be abandoned entirely. In 1936, after being tipped off by US censors that It Can't Happen Here, a film showing the advantages of democracy over fascism, would cause problems with "certain foreign governments", MGM head Louis B Mayer called off production.

"Hollywood is collaborating and the Nazis are having the final say on several important movies that would have exposed what was going on in Germany," said Urwand. The historian uncovered documents showing that, in order to get around currency export restrictions, MGM bought German bonds that financed rearmament factories in the Sudetenland. "You can't get more extreme than the biggest movie studio in America funding armaments a month after Kristallnacht," he said.

But other historians present a different explanation. In his research, Tom Doherty, a scholar at Brandeis University who recently published Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939, found US commerce department documents advising MGM that one way to get blocked currency out of Germany was to invest in armaments. "Maybe it doesn't look too good, but in 1936 Germany was a friendly nation and America was not a signatory to the treaty of Versailles

Above, U.S. military forces in Hawaii stage war games to prepare for a possible invasion. Apparently the defenders detected their mock enemy long before an invasion could be staged.

Below, several prominent Angelenos sharply question German Consul Georg Gyssling during a Town Hall appearance at the Biltmore. When Gyssling rebuffs the first question, attorney Joseph Scott threatens to resign from Town Hall if "the other side" is not heard, The Times says. Town Hall officials promise another gathering in which "the other side" could air its views ...

Quote of the Day: "The consul also said, in answer to a question, that the Jews in Austria would not be deprived of property rights any more than German Jews had been. This brought laughter from the audience but the consul doggedly kept on talking." --The Times, reporting on a Town Hall appearance by Georg (George) Gyssling, shown above in Los Angeles in 1934

...Doherty, a film historian and professor of American studies at Brandeis University, points out that a great majority of American studios went out of their way to avoid any mention of the ominous political developments in Germany from the moment of Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 until well into 1939, when the outbreak of war in Europe had come to seem inevitable.

The motivation was largely commercial: the studios, with one important exception, did not want to risk the loss of a major European market by offending Joseph Goebbels’s Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, whose censors decided which foreign films would be shown in Germany.

The studios had seen early on what chaos the Nazis could cause, when Goebbels, not yet a state official, led a squad of brownshirts to disrupt the Berlin premiere of the 1930 antiwar film “All Quiet on the Western Front” with stink bombs, sneezing powder and cries of “Judenfilm!” Caving in to Nazi pressure, the weak Weimar government rescinded the film’s exhibition license, and Goebbels had won one of his first major propaganda victories. When the Nazis did come to power, they soon passed a law prohibiting Jews from participating in German movies — an edict that immediately destroyed one of the most creative film industries in Europe and drove many of its leading figures to America. ...Hollywood’s response to this forced Aryanization was halfhearted. Those studios that had invested heavily in German distribution offices — like Fox, Paramount and MGM — removed Jewish personnel from key posts inside Germany but otherwise continued to do business as usual. Those with less to lose, like RKO, United Artists and Columbia, moved their operations out of Berlin but went on dealing with Germany from Paris or London.

Only Warner Brothers cut off relations entirely. In April 1933, the head of the studio’s branch office in Berlin, a British Jew named Phil Kaufman, was attacked and beaten by brownshirts. Ordered to leave Berlin, Kaufman ended up in Stockholm, where he collapsed and died a few months later from causes that may or may not have been related to the attack. That was enough for Jack Warner, the studio’s head. He immediately closed operations in Germany and became, as the decade wore on, the most actively anti-Nazi of the moguls.

But the Third Reich’s influence, as Doherty shows, extended beyond Germany to Hollywood itself. Unwilling to risk the displeasure of Nazi officials — and in particular, the wrath of the German consul in Los Angeles, Georg Gyssling — the studios avoided any mention of German politics in their productions, while backing away from Jewish subject matter, a Hollywood staple in the ’20s with films like “The Jazz Singer.”

Justification for this self-censorship was found in the Production Code, a set of laxly enforced moral guidelines established in 1930 by the industry’s trade organization, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. In 1934, the code was given new teeth with the creation of the Production Code Administration, an enforcement office under the direction of the implacable Joseph I. Breen (the subject of a previous book by Doherty, “Hollywood’s Censor”).

A vague admonition in the code — “the history, institutions, prominent people, and citizenry of all nations shall be represented fairly” — was all that was needed. It became the Breen Office’s excuse to codify, in Doherty’s words, “a see-no-evil, speak-no-evil, hear-no-evil policy toward any regime on the planet, especially if the nation in question offered a lucrative market for Hollywood imports.” ...

(L-R) Chairman and CEO of the Universal Music Group Lucian Grainge, CEO of EMI Group Roger Faxon, Executive Chairman of Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., and Chairman and CEO of Front Line Management Group Irving Azoff, Director of Warner Music Group Corp. Edgar Bronfman Jr., Founder and Chairman of Beggars Group Ltd. Martin Mills, and President and CEO of Public Knowledge Gigi Sohn are sworn in during a hearing before the Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee June 21, 2012 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

The hearing was to focus on the merger of Universal Music Group and EMI Merger and the future of music online.

Universal Music Group is consolidating its music distribution companies and Nashville-based country music labels letting go of some 60 staffers.

Universal Music Group is consolidating its music distribution companies and Nashville country music labels following its merger with EMI recorded music. According to sources, nearly 60 people were let go: some 50 from distribution and almost 10 from Nashville. Though the majority of those laid-off were with EMI, Universal Music employees were also let go....In addition to those laid off today, some EMI distribution staffers were told they would only have their jobs for another 30 to 120 days, according to sources in both the EMI and UMG camps. One senior UMG executive, however, denies this, saying the consolidation of the distribution company has been completed and going forward, new staffers may be brought in for digital sales

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Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole ; He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. - Job 5

Not that they needed one, but progressive wing nuts and their fellow travelers are getting another reason to hate President Trump. He’s proving that capitalism works.

The president’s policies of cutting high taxes and excessive regulations are sparking a stock market surge and soaring economic confidence.

Each day brings announcements from companies ranging from Apple to Walmart that they are giving bonuses and pay hikes, adding new jobs and increasing their investments in America.

Millions of workers will get the bonuses, most of which are for $1,000, and untold others will get new or higher-paying jobs.

Most of those workers also will see their take-home pay increase because they will get personal income tax cuts and a doubling of the standard deduction. Those changes will become apparent in a week or so when the new lower rates are applied to payrolls.

The cash-in-the-pocket benefits are great news to many families, but the boom is doing something else too: It’s giving the millennials a firsthand lesson in economics.

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In fact, government redistribution had its heyday under Obama, who raised taxes on upper incomes yet never stopped complaining that the rich didn’t pay their “fair share.”

He also piled up restrictions on business through environmental rules, ObamaCare and the Department of Labor, not to mention Dodd-Frank.

Those burdens strangled growth, both in terms of take-home pay and job creation. Obama was the first president never to have a whole year of 3 percent growth and had the lowest labor-participation rate in three decades.

"As a former reality TV star, Trump knows the importance of mixing things up to keep the show interesting ..."

State of the Union: How ‘Teleprompter Trump’ can win the nightLinda Feldmann

JANUARY 29, 2018 WASHINGTON—A less-familiar version of President Trump is expected to take the podium for his first State of the Union address Tuesday night.

Call him Teleprompter Trump – the version who mostly sticks to the script, can be a bit stilted, and meets the standard definition of “presidential.” Twitter Trump, who regularly sends unfiltered and at times provocative messages to his more than 47 million followers, will be on hold. So, too, will Campaigner Trump, who won the 2016 election and still throws red meat to raucous crowds at rallies around the country.

Therein lies a central feature of this presidency: Mr. Trump’s ability to switch from one persona to the other, by turns reassuring the political establishment and then turning it on its head. The effect can be disruptive and contradictory, but it’s all part of the essential Trump. And on Tuesday night, by deploying the conventional Teleprompter Trump, he can help himself, analysts say.

“Trump was elected to be a disruptor – but people don’t want constant disruption,” says Ari Fleischer, press secretary in the George W. Bush White House. “His teleprompter speeches have won him plaudits… They show that governing is not the same as campaigning.”

Even many Republicans agree that teleprompter speeches are not Trump’s preferred method of communicating – and they often come across as flat and low-energy.

LibTards:~>“Memo to journalists and pundits … who will comment after the State of the Union: a president reading from a teleprompter for 45 minutes without melting down does not make him presidential.”

... another great speech, and about75% of Americans loved it! Guess whothe 25% were who hated it?

Viewers approve of Trump's first State of the Union address - CBS News poll

Views of the speechThree in four Americans who tuned in to President Trump's State of the Union address tonight approved of the speech he gave. Just a quarter disapproved.

How did the speech make you feel? Eight in 10 Americans who watched tonight felt that the president was trying to unite the country, rather than divide it. Two-thirds said the speech made them feel proud, though just a third said it made them feel safer. Fewer said the speech made them feel angry or scared.

Wall Street moved higher Wednesday, capping a strong run in January and clinching the Dow’s best winning streak since 1959.

Despite a pullback to start the week, the Dow and S&P 500 completed their best January performances since 2016. The indexes also posted their 10th consecutive monthly gains—the strongest run in nearly 60 years. The Nasdaq has seven straight monthly gains to its credit.

U.S. Oil Production Tops 10 Million Barrels A Day for First Time Since 1970Shale production helped lift November output to just shy of recordBy Alison Sider and Lynn Cook - Jan. 31, 2018

U.S. oil production surpassed 10 million barrels a day in November for the first time in nearly 50 years, a milestone that underscores the growing dominance of the U.S. oil industry.

While global oil exporters once dismissed shale as a flash in the pan, the industry has emerged more efficient than ever from a three-year oil price rout and is poised to take advantage of prices that are at their highest levels since late 2014.

In November, production rose to 10.038 million barrels a day, 4% more than the previous month, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That is just shy of the monthly record of 10.044 million barrels a day in November of 1970.

" ... the U.S. is on pace to pull ahead of Saudi Arabia, which last year produced just shy of 10 million barrels a day, and will vie with Russia, with output of 11 million barrels a day, to become the world’s top oil producer."

The American economy is on track to grow at a 5.4 percent annualized rate in the first quarter of this year, the Atlanta Federal Reserve’s GDPNow forecast model showed on Monday.

The regional Fed’s forecast rose from last week’s 4.2 percent growth following a report on manufacturing that showed more expansion than expected. The forecast of real consumer spending growth rose from 3.1 percent to 4.0 percent, while the forecast of investment growth soared from 5.2 percent to 9.2 percent.

This is an early reading, based on just one-months data. Even the most optimistic economists do not expect the economy to expand at that rate in the first quarter.

Both the Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow and the New York Fed’s Nowcast had readings for the fourth quarter of 2017 that were substantially higher than the official initial estimate, which came in at a 2.6 percent annual growth rate.

DONALD Trump's oldest political ally and adviser has said the US President is ready to do a trade deal with Britain now and Theresa May needs to stop delaying.

Roger Stone, who was previously a key adviser to Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, also confirmed the President has not visited the UK yet because "he has not had a heartfelt invitation."

Speaking at a Tory Bow Group event in central London he also told the Daily Express that Britain will need a Trump like political figure with charisma who can stand up to the political elites to make a success of Brexit.

Mr Stone, who came to public prominence revealing allegations about John Kennedy’s assassination, has known the US President since 1980 when he persuaded the property magnate to raise funds for Ronald Reagan’s election campaign.

He then went on to try to persuade Mr Trump to run as President eventually succeeding on third attempt in 2016.

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He said: “I think you do need a leader who is an outsider. I can’t tell you who that person would be but it has to be a charismatic person who believes in individual liberty and freedoms.”

At least 303 companies have announced tax reform bonuses, pay raises, or 401(k) hikes, according to a running list compiled by Americans for Tax Reform, found at www.atr.org/list

Democrats and most media outlets continue to dismiss or altogether ignore the good news about tax reform. American workers do not agree with the “crumbs” comments of Democrat Leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.

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“The tax reform package is becoming increasingly popular with every headline,” said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform. “All this before Americans see higher take-home pay and lower tax withholding this month when 90% of Americans will first see their gains in their paycheck. Every two weeks from February to November Americans will be reminded that one party cut their taxes and raised their pay. And the other tried to stop it.”

.... “With the Trump administration, with Republicans in Washington, we are seeing this fabulous renaissance,” Wynn stated. “The whole idea of a tax break, of lowering taxes for corporations and for individuals is saying, ‘Go ahead people, we think you know what to do with your money better than we do.'”

Freshly released emails show just how deeply Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt was entrenched in the administration’s rebranding efforts.

He personally oversaw major changes to the agency’s website. References to climate change were purged, allusions to Barack Obama’s Clean Power Act erased.

President Trump has been excoriated by environmentalists and fringe liberals activists because of his choice in Pruitt. Liberals grew used to getting their way while Barack Obama was in office. President Trump and Pruitt are despised because they refused to let the agency carry on as it was before.

“The website purge reinforces serious concerns that Pruitt has predetermined that he will repeal the Clean Power Plan and the current rulemaking process is a sham,” the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) said in a statement published on their website.

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Obama was known for his love of government regulations. He not only kept the EPA payroll bloated and overstaffed, he allowed ultra-liberal researchers to run the show. President Trump and Pruitt, by contrast, are willing to go where the science takes them. They don’t have an agenda to prove the way that climate change activists do.

While applause rang out during the speech, those of us who are able to see through the lies saw the dog and pony show for what it is—a glorification of war and the fleecing of American people.

Opening up his speech Trump appealed to bipartisanship which was an unusual move given his constant divisive rhetoric. But Ron Paul saw right through it as the issues Republicans and Democrats agree on are the things that hurt Americans the most like foreign policy, the Federal Reserve, insane military budgets, and war.

RP response: Lots of praise for bipartisanship and "coming together" but coming together is not really the answer if it means coming together on bad foreign policy, bad monetary policy, deficit financing, massive military spending and foreign entanglements. #SOTU✔

As Trump moved on—briefly—to health care, he hypocritically claimed that Americans with “terminal conditions should have access to experimental treatments that could potentially save their lives.”

However, Trump remains entirely silent as his Attorney General wages war on a plant that has been proven to save lives—marijuana

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Terminally ill should have access to experimental drugs - yes! But in a free market all free individuals should be able to make decisions on what kinds of medicine they wish to take. Like marijuana. #SOTU

Later on in his speech, Trump declared that it is the federal government’s job to keep Americans safe—completely ignoring the fact that safety is mentioned nowhere in the Constitution.

“My duty, and the sacred duty of every elected official in this chamber, is to defend Americans — to protect their safety, their families, their communities, and their right to the American Dream. Because Americans are dreamers too,” said Trump,

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Prime function of the Federal government is NOT protecting our safety! It is the preservation of our Liberty. That forgotten word... #SOTU

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Rev21:4And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

"... first time we have had someone in conservative leadership who will actually call the other side out and fight back.”

Dems Are On The ‘Greatest Witch Hunt Since Salem,’ According To Donald Trump Jr

Donald Trump Jr. “can’t help but think” the team of Democratic donors on special counsel Robert Mueller’s team are on a “witch hunt,” according to an exclusive video interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation.

“In fact, it’s the greatest witch hunt since Salem,” Trump said in the January interview. He explained that the media has staked its credibility on the notion that Russian collusion has to be real. They have pushed this narrative for so long , they need it to be true, and they will do whatever it takes to make it so.

After a major investment of time and legal fees, the only things discovered are “some pretty serious plots … plots that show they weaponized the FBI and DOJ against the duly elected President of this country.” He hopes we get to the bottom of it fast.

... is the Stock Market being sabotaged byNever Trumpers in the FED? Some in-the-knowhave been expecting this ...

FLASHBACK: Sept. '17

The Federal Reserve May Secretly Want to Sink the Record-Breaking Stock MarketA big Federal Reserve meeting is coming up. Here is one thing that could happen if the Fed gets too aggressive.Scott Gamm

Despite its independence, the Federal Reserve may quietly want a bear market that takes down a president that loves tweeting about the stock market.

Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, told TheStreet the "[Janet] Yellen put" in the markets could expire under President Trump. "I don't know if the Fed has much love for Trump," he said, adding that the Fed had the markets' back during the Obama Administration.

"Maybe the Fed would be happy to see a bear market that could be blamed on Trump." Schiff thinks the markets could easily correct 20%.

One black swan event Schiff sees is the notion of investors abandoning the euphoria over Trump's presidency, which helped fuel the stock market rally this year.

"We've had a huge move up since the election of Trump even though prior to the election the expectation was if Trump won it [would be a disaster for markets]," he said.

When asked if the two straight quarters of double-digit earnings growth has sparked the rally in stocks this year, as opposed to solely Trump, Schiff pointed to earnings headwinds in the retail sector.

The fact they did this AFTER Janet Yellen was out, and the day the new guy was installed, is very telling!

It would be one thing if the market corrected on its own. However, these punks manipulate the markets at times they want to do so. Yes, they are trying to make Trump look bad. ITS WHAT BABIES AND CRIMINALS OF THE DEEP STATE DO!

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers pushed to enact a massive budget deal Thursday along with a stopgap temporary measure to prevent a government shutdown at midnight. GOP leaders tried to shore up support among conservatives for a plan that would shower the Pentagon with the billions they favor but also balloon the deficits they despise.

“It’s going to need bipartisan support. We are going to deliver our share of support,” House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt. “Our members who are focused on the military are very happy where we landed with that.”

The measure was a triumph for Republican allies of the Pentagon and for Democrats seeking more spending on infrastructure and fighting opioid abuse.

But it represented a bitter defeat for many liberal Democrats who sought to use the party’s leverage on the budget to resolve the plight of immigrant “Dreamers” who face deportation after being brought to the U.S. illegally as children. The deal does not address immigration. And some tea party Republicans shredded the measure as a budget-buster.

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Several recently released polls show a resurgence of Republican popularity among voters, as measured by President Trump’s approval ratings and the generic Congressional ballot.

The Real Clear Politics Average of Polls, for instance, currently shows the generic Congressional ballot advantage for Democrats has dipped to 6.2 percent, the lowest it has been since May 30 of last year, and down seven points from the 13-point advantage they had as recently as a month and a half ago.President Trump’s job approval rating has increased to 42.3 percent in the Real Clear Politics Average of Polls, his highest since May 13 of last year.

As Breitbart News reported, the much hyped “Blue Wave” Democrats hoped would power them to a net gain of 24 seats in the 2018 midterms needed to give them control of the House of Representatives appears to have reached its peak two months ago in December.

Democrats dismiss the recent trends as temporary rounding errors, pointing to the December victory of Democrat Doug Jones in the Alabama U.S. Senate special election, and this week’s special election victory by a Democrat in a Missouri state legislative district that usually is reliably Republican as true indicators of what they call voter fatigue with President Trump and his policies.

Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera said it’s ridiculous for the Democrats to have tied Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) to budget negotiations and thinks any hope of a midterm wave has been extinguished.

“DACA had nothing to do with the budget. And when you take DACA, these ‘dreamers,’ and you say their fate must be determined before or as part of the budget negotiations, Why?” Rivera said. “It’s not a budgetary item. It’s totally different. You know how I feel about the dreamers. I really resent [Democrats] using them.”

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“The way you looked at the Republicans debating Donald Trump last year ... like they’re 16 difficult parties. Far left, moderate, someplace in the middle. I just think that there is no Democratic party right now .... I see President Trump’s popularity ticking up. I think the tax cuts will have an effect. And I think the market will come to its senses.”

Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera said it’s ridiculous for the Democrats to have tied Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) to budget negotiations and thinks any hope of a midterm wave has been extinguished.

One of the few times I have agreed with J.Rivera. OK

“DACA had nothing to do with the budget. And when you take DACA, these ‘dreamers,’ and you say their fate must be determined before or as part of the budget negotiations, Why?” Rivera said. “It’s not a budgetary item. It’s totally different. You know how I feel about the dreamers. I really resent [Democrats] using them.”

When President Trump can get the Redumblacans on Board...then we should have a Great Year #2! If the Dip-sh*ts in Congress hinder the Pres.---then Trump will get less done because of the Dip-SH*TS...easy math; is it Not!!!

... real conservative and original DAILY CALLER funder,77yo Foster Friess, who is considering running for Senator from Wyoming, spells out the State-of-the-Trump-Artas well as anyone I have seen ... interview with DC:

Foster Friess says he’s never taken requests to run for public office seriously, mostly because he suspects his solicitors of “angling to get an invite to my 80th birthday party.”

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That authenticity is why Trump was able to appeal to the working class, Friess said, despite its traditional status as a Democratic base.

“I believe his freedom, his authenticity is why he’s completely stolen the entire Democratic base. Where are the plumbers, the electricians, the construction workers? When he does the Keystone pipeline, all these construction workers [are there.] So the public service unions still aren’t on board with it, but the craftsmen, the carpenters [are.]”

“So the people now running the Democratic Party are replacing the country club Republicans, where you have Facebook, Google, George Soros,” Friess continues. “These are now the downward forces at the top of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party no longer is the Republican Party.”

“In fact, [Sen.] Jeff Flake said these rallies that Trump has are the last vestiges of the Republican Party and he’s right, but not the way he thought, because basically, the Republican Party has now morphed into a completely different group of people where it supports the little guy, if you will. The people that make our country work. The plumbers, electricians, waitresses.”

The White House finally rolled out President Donald Trump’s long-awaited infrastructure plan Monday, swinging for the fences with a $1.5 trillion initiative that is light on new federal dollars — but could inspire a wave of toll roads, ease decades-old regulations and permanently change cities’ and states’ expectations for assistance from Washington.

"It is time to give Americans the working, modern infrastructure they deserve," Trump said in a message to Congress accompanying his "legislative outline."

The proposal faces tough odds in Congress: Some conservative Republicans are already expressing shock at Trump’s total price tag, while Democrats say the share coming from the federal government would be too little to fill the backlog of crumbling roads, bridges, railroads, tunnels and airports, along with other needs like rural broadband service, veterans' hospitals, toxic waste cleanups and drinking water.

Trump is proposing to provide $200 billion for his plan over the next 10 years — “not a large amount,” he has conceded — paid for by unspecified cuts elsewhere in the budget proposal that the White House also plans to release Monday. That spending is meant to draw an additional $1.3 trillion or more in investments from cities, states, private investors and other sources.

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Trump’s plan, the official said, offers “a permanent fix.” The plan also includes specific money for rural communities, aim to encourage apprenticeships and other forms of workforce training, and pay for unspecified “transformative,” “next-century-type” projects that would “lift the American spirit,” the official said.

House Energy and Commerce Chairman Greg Walden~>"... President Trump hit the nail on the head when constructing this plan to rebuild America's infrastructure. Improving our country’s infrastructure can be a bipartisan effort, and we stand ready to strap on our work boots and pave the way for success with our colleagues across the aisle."

Feds Collect Record Taxes in First Month Under Tax Cut; Run Surplus in JanuaryTerence P. Jeffrey - February 12, 2018

(CNSNews.com) - The federal government this January ran a surplus while collecting record total tax revenues for that month of the year, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released today.

January was the first month under the new tax law that President Donald Trump signed in December.

During January, the Treasury collected approximately $361,038,000,000 in total tax revenues and spent a total of approximately $311,802,000,000 to run a surplus of approximately $49,236,000,000.

Despite the monthly surplus of $49,236,000,000, the federal government is still running a deficit of approximately $175,718,000,000 for fiscal year 2018. That is because the government entered the month with a deficit of approximately $224,955,000,000.

The $361,038,000,000 in total taxes the Treasury collected this January was $11,747,870,000 more than the $349,290,130,000 that the Treasury collected in January of last year (in December 2017 dollars, adjusted using the Bureau of Labor Statistics inflation calculator).

The Treasury not only collected record taxes in the month of January itself, but has now collected record tax revenues for the first four months of a fiscal year (October through January).

So far in fiscal 2018, the federal government has collected a record $1,130,550,000,000 in total taxes.

... more draining the pedo-swamp? This billpassed thru Congress in January, DJT willsign into law today:

H.R. 4708, the DHS Blue Campaign Authorization Act

Washington, D.C. – Today, the House unanimously passed H.R. 4708, the Department of Homeland Security Blue Campaign Authorization Act of 2017. This bipartisan bill, introduced by House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX), helps protect victims of human trafficking by providing the right tools to federal, state, and local law enforcement, as well as private sector organizations to increase awareness and better defend against this heinous threat.

Chairman McCaul: “We must do everything in our power to combat human trafficking, uphold human rights, and prevent our citizens from becoming victims of this heinous crime. The Department of Homeland Security Blue Campaign Authorization Act will better equip DHS to partner, educate, and coordinate efforts and intelligence sharing on multiple levels. It will provide resources to help deter, detect, and mitigate instances of human trafficking in our country. It will also safeguard victims and help raise public awareness of the threat human trafficking poses to our communities. I am confident this bill will help protect our citizens and children from being exploited.”

Trump is the first President who understands his job is to work for the people and not benefit personally by being in office. A true public servant!

Sad, so many politicians take payoffs for their votes, and serve establishment rather than the people. Note those who came to Congress middle class and who leave millionaires. You know who the smucks are, by this one thing. I have a feeling those people are now being forced out for not being true reps of the people but only profiting from their positions. Watch who is leaving office this year!

Attorney General Jeff Sessions told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Thursday that the Department of Justice was ending the “executive branch legal activism” of the previous administration, while also fighting the judicial activism of liberal judges.

“I think the department did become too political” under President Barack Obama, Sessions said. “Essentially, it was executive branch legal activism. They would take cases or regulations or statutes and expand or redefine the meaning of words in them to advance the agenda that they thought ought to be advanced — an agenda that often had zero chance of passing Congress, where the elected representatives sit.

“So you have an agenda, and you can’t get Congress to pass it, so you use unelected regulatory officials and lawyers to draft regulations and enforcement policies that carry out a political agenda that the people don’t favor.

“And I think that was a factor in this past [presidential] election, and it was an issue that was known to a lot of business and legal experts. They saw this as a dangerous trend.”

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Sessions singled out President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program — which expires March 5 — as a primary example of “executive branch legal activism.” And he excoriated the courts for preventing President Donald Trump for withdrawing Obama’s policy.

... America is coming to thisconclusion ... they were HADby the so-called 'fifth estate'.

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The Media Stopped Reporting The Russia Collusion Story Because They Helped Create ItThe press has played an active role in the Trump-Russia collusion story since its inception. It helped birth it.Lee Smith - FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Half the country wants to know why the press won’t cover the growing scandal now implicating the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice, and threatening to reach the State Department, Central Intelligence Agency, and perhaps even the Obama White House.

After all, the release last week of a less-redacted version of Sens. Charles Grassley and Lindsey Graham’s January 4 letter showed that the FBI secured a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to search the communications of a Trump campaign adviser based on a piece of opposition research paid for by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. The Fourth Amendment rights of an American citizen were violated to allow one political party to spy on another.

If the press did its job and reported the facts, the argument goes, then it wouldn’t just be Republicans and Trump supporters demanding accountability and justice. Americans across the political spectrum would understand the nature and extent of the abuses and crimes touching not just on one political party and its presidential candidate but the rights of every American.

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This Isn’t the 27-Year-Olds’ FaultI’ve argued over the last year that the phony collusion narrative is a symptom of the structural problems with the press. The rise of the Internet, then social media, and gross corporate mismanagement damaged traditional media institutions. As newspapers and magazines around the country went bankrupt when ownership couldn’t figure out how to make money off the new digital advertising model, an entire generation of journalistic experience, expertise, and ethics was lost. It was replaced, as one Obama White House official famously explained, by 27-year-olds who “literally know nothing.”

But the first vehicles of the Russiagate campaign were not bloggers or recent J-school grads lacking wisdom or guidance to wave off a piece of patent nonsense. They were journalists at the top of their profession—editors-in-chief, columnists, specialists in precisely the subjects that the dossier alleges to treat: foreign policy and national security. They didn’t get fooled. They volunteered their reputations to perpetrate a hoax on the American public.

That’s why, after a year of thousands of furious allegations, all of which concerning Trump are unsubstantiated, the press will not report the real scandal, in which it plays a leading role. When the reckoning comes, Russiagate is likely to be seen not as a symptom of the collapse of the American press, but as one of the causes for it.

DJT:“It is more important than ever before to come together as Americans. We cannot allow those seeking to sow confusion, discord, and rancor to be successful. It’s time we stop the outlandish partisan attacks, wild and false allegations, and far-fetched theories, which only serve to further the agendas of bad actors, like Russia, and do nothing to protect the principles of our institutions.”

Currently, there are 324 refugee resettlement offices nationwide, but Trump’s State Department told Reuters that all of the offices are no longer necessary because the administration has cut down on the number of foreign refugees being resettled throughout the U.S.

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Tucker Carlson: Indicted Russians Were Facebook Trolls

Fox News host Tucker Carlson seemed unimpressed by the latest Mueller indictments released Friday, summing up the Russian actors as “Facebook trolls.”“At least we know what our federal agents were doing recently while they were too busy to stop school shootings,” Carlson said. “They’ve been chasing down bad Facebook trolls.”

The outspoken libertarian’s departure is a sign of the times, say LA conservatives, as Silicon Valley faces criticism for silencing alternative viewpoints

The only living Trump supporter in Silicon Valley

Olivia Solon in San Francisco @oliviasolonFri 16 Feb 2018 16.47 EST

...If the billionaire tech investor and noted libertarian Peter Thiel really does leave Silicon Valley for Los Angeles to escape what he views as an increasing intolerance for conservatives, the city’s growing community of conservatives will be there to welcome him.......

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Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole ; He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. - Job 5